I'm trying to change the Xfce Terminal Emulator prompt from bash-4.1$ to something like what kconsole has. If i issue a /bin/bash -l in the terminal, then I get the prompt and the colors that I want, but I'd like this to automagically happen when I click the Terminal icon in the Xfce panel.This is for Slackware 13.37 (32bit) and Terminal 0.4.6
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I have one account on an Ubuntu server with the correct PS1 variable and I want to make one of my other accounts on the same server have the same PS1 variable, so that my prompt on this new account (when I ssh into the machine) is the same as the original account.
Is there a way that I can pass this PS1 variable between accounts so the prompt is the same?
I have tried printing it out, copying the output, and then reassigning it to PS1 on the new account, but it just doesn't work.
Here is what is printed when I type echo $PS1:
[e]0;u@h: wa]${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}[�33[01;32m]u@h[�33[00m]:[�33[01;34m]w[�33[00m]$
I want to assign that prompt (shown above) to my new account.
I'm trying to change the bash prompt and based on the man pages $ should show a $ which changes to a # for a SU. However, this doesn't happen on my machine, it's $ for both user and SU.The line in .bashrc is:export PS1="u@h:w$"
View 7 Replies View RelatedI'm playing around with my prompt, and for some reason under certain conditions part of the prompt is output twice.
- When my terminal window isn't maximized it always outputs the prompt correctly.
- When the window is maximized it outputs the prompt correctly when I enter an empty command (ie, when I just hit enter).
- When it is maximized and I enter any command, it outputs the second line of my prompt twice.
I'm using urxvt.. I tested in xterm and it seems to work correctly, so I guess it's an issue with urxvt. My prompt code:
Code:
#!/bin/bash
function redblue {
local BLUE="[33[0;34m]"
local RED="[33[0;31m]"
local LIGHT_RED="[33[1;31m]"
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I am getting more and more comfortable working with the shell, thus I would like to change its prompt color to my liking, as it will be easier for me to distinguish commands vs. outputs.
I've read a couple of instructions of how to change the .bashrc file and am familiar with what the codes in PS1 mean. Except, this file can be intimidating to newbie eyes.
Where exactly on the file is it that I need to make the change?
Here is what I am trying to do. I would like my prompt to like exactly like the prompt I use in Backtrack - which consist in two different colors, one for the host and another for the pwd. Here is what the Backtrack .bashrc file looks like:
# /etc/profile: This file contains system-wide defaults used by
# all Bourne (and related) shells.
# Set the values for some environment variables:
export MINICOM="-c on"
export MANPATH=/usr/local/man:/usr/man:/usr/X11R6/man:/usr/local/share/man:/usr/bin/man:/usr/share/man
export HOSTNAME="`cat /etc/HOSTNAME`"
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I also read that in order to have the same results when I log in as root, I will have to copy the modified .bashrc file into /root
I'm running Red Hat Linux 5.4 on HP DL580 server with 16 processors and 64 GB of RAM. I'm connecting to the server remotely through SSH. after entering the password, it takes time to return the command line, if I click ctrl+c during this time, I'll have the command line prompt but not the correct bash prompt (I have to run bash to pass to my correct prompt).I tried to install Apache on the server, ./configure took 4 hours to finish instead of 1 or two minutes, Oracle installation same behavior. Server Disks are mirrored using RAID controller.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI've run into something odd:
Code:
jdougher jdougher> cd
jdougher jdougher> echo $PS1
u W>
jdougher jdougher>
For some reason, rather than replacing $HOME with "~", my prompt just displays the name of my home directory.
I was attempting to change the bash shell color prompt on my RHEL / CentOS 5 server. When I login as my user account on my server I can see my 'PS1':
Code:
[carlos@srv1 ~]$ echo $PS1
[u@h W]$
I want to change my PS1 to:
PS1='[e[1;32m][u@h W]$[e[0m] '
When I look in ~/.bashrc, I don't see my 'PS1' line so I am confused and wondering how I do this on RHEL / CentOS systems.
I changed the default SUSE prompt setting by modifying the shell variable PS1 to display the following information:
u : the username of the current user
h : the hostname up to the first '.'
w : the current working directory, with $HOME abbreviated with a tilde
I used export command to setup a new shell prompt:
export PS1="[u@h: w]$ " To add colors to the shell prompt and make a regular user prompt blue I used the following command syntax:export PS1="e[0;34m[u@h: w]$ e[m "
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I would like to change the formatting on my BASH prompt from this:
anon@machinename.domain.poo:~/some/very/annoying/long/path$
to something like this:
anon@machinename.domain.poo:~/some/very/annoying/long/path
$
The idea is that I would be able to type a reasonably long command on one line without it wrapping to the next line so quickly.
Currently the terminal prompt looks like this:[karlis@karlis-desktop current_folder]$How can I minimize the prompt, so that it only shows $ or # without extra info in square brackets?I checked the preferences for the default Gnome-Terminal and Terminator - there are no settings for this. It is pretty hard to use terminal when working in directories with long names.
View 1 Replies View RelatedAfter writing a new prompt for Bash, I noticed that one character of my commands were being lost when it wrapped to the new line. Here is an image of the example (I typed 1234567890 over and over):
Here is my $PS1
PS1="
[[e[0;90m]d [e[0m]] [[e[0;90m]$(/bin/ls -1 | /usr/bin/wc -l | /bin/sed 's: ::g') files, $(/usr/bin/du -sh | cut -f1)[e[0m]
[[e[0;36m]#[e[0m]] [e[0;95m]u[e[0;90m]@[e[1;92m]h[e[0m]: [e[1;34m]w [e[1;30m]$[e[0m] "
What have I done wrong?
Everytime I log into the linux server at my workplace (I use putty), I don't get the bash prompt right away. I need to execute the command 'bash' to get it. Anyway to make this automatic? e.g.
Code:
host:1>
host:1> bash
user@host:~$
Just tried to install a minimal F13 from the first CD. Picked minimal as the choice and it still asked for CD #1 and #2. I'll have to doublecheck if that can be averted by manually unchecking everything. However, a bit more disturbing--though that's annoying enough--was the fact that I, on a VM at least, couldn't get to a bash prompt during the anaconda installation. Is that normal now? Can anyone confirm or correct that on an actual hardware install, vs. a VM?
One used to be able to, with F5, or maybe F1, IIRC, get to, during a Fedora installation, a shell prompt, the way the vast majority of distributions do. I'm wondering if this is just an oddity due to the VM and possibly Fkeys not working properly, or something else that they've taken away from from Anaconda.
Is running a command in the Alt+F2 prompt possible in a bash script?I need this for a launcher for gnome-shell.For it I have written a little script to check if the process gnome-shell is alive and act accordingly.The script works fine, I just don't know how to write "debugexit" to the Alt+F2 prompt, as that is the only decent way I have found to shut gnome-shell down and going back to gdm desktop smoothly.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI've written custom prompts for several boxes but this one has an error I just can't identify and need a second set of eyes to help solve it.
I've set the following as my prompt: PS1="[e[30;42m]u@h[e[0m][e[30;47m] #][e[0m][e[32;1;40m]w>[e[0m] "
(hostname/un obscured & image enlarged slightly to make it easier to read.)
Everything looks fine initially as you can see here:url
1- It sets the username@host in back on green text.
2- It then changes to an off-white an prints the command number for the terminal.
3- Next, changes to a green on black font and prints the working directory.
4- Finally is prints a ">" character and a space.
The problem occurs when I try to "up arrow" to reuse and/or edit a prior command. It prints the prior command fine, but if I arrow over to edit the command sometimes the first character can not be deleted from displaying as you can see in the following composite screen-shot
url
Here I did a simple ps and piped it through grep. After getting the output, I up-arrow to repeat the command. As you can see by the second section the cursor only goes back to the "s" in ps. The "p" can not be deleted. Hitting enter just displays a new line, so the "p" was just a ghost being displayed and not really there.
How do i change "bash-4.1#" to "user@hostname. really distro version is 13.1, google has failed me an new to slack.
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Here's the Script:
#Here's where the problem is that I know of
I've been playing w/ the exclamation points to see if that could be the problem, but so far no luck.
I have searched and searched and maybe I don't know how to articulate this issue with out just posting the problem I'm having. Every time I bring up a terminal window I get the following "Header"
declare -x COLORTERM="gnome-terminal"
declare -x CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH="/usr/lib64/qt/include"
declare -x DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS="unix:abstract=/tmp/dbus-xSFd6zqrYQ,guid=dc5e07974559da016842742900000090"
declare -x DISPLAY=":0.0"
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To be honest I cheated and used the .bashrc / .profile files from Ubuntu and all was working fine for a while now and it seems something changed to cause this... any ideas on why I am getting this? I checked my .bashrc and my /etc/profile and it doesn't look like anything is amiss..
I'm creating a bash script to do some tasks for me. I would like the script to be run at a set time of everyday. My first question is if it is possible that if one of the commands in the script requires sudo, is there a way to get around it with out making sudo not require a password. Such as, is there a way to include the password in the script? If that is the case, I can always just set the file as read only by sudo. I've been looking for a way to do this, with no success. if I have a command that wants input, how do I give it to the program. For example, if I want to make a zip file that is encrypted, the command would go as:
Code:
zip -r example * -e
now how would I get the script to insert my wanted password.
I am working on different versions of Ubuntu & I looking for a script that will prompt the user to enter the host name & user name that he wanted for that system at initial boot up.
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If this is always true, how do I change my prompt to simply "$" and the root prompt to simply "#"?
I managed to change the background by copying over a new image file to some directory. However, there is still the big boring login window. Is there any way to change that? I'd like something darker, and smaller. I copied over the image file to /usr/share/backgrounds/warty-final-ubuntu.png My image file was actually a jpeg file, but copying it over to /usr/share/backgrounds/warty-final-ubuntu.png posed no problems.
View 9 Replies View RelatedThis might be simple but i am unable to find an answer anyplace online. How do you change the terminal login prompt on a Ubuntu server?Right now when you go to log into the server it displays:<old_servername> login:
I would like it to just display login without the server name or the new server name. I am not sure how that info go in the login prompt to begin.
I am using Puppy Version 430.I want to change the default prompt from # to the current working directory followed by one space. I can do this by opening a console window and entering PS1="w " How do I force this to persist when I restart the computer.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have an assignment that I have to change the prompt of shell through C.
View 11 Replies View RelatedI looked into my shell 'profile' on my running lenny and copied the PS1 definition over to my [virtual] new squeeze machine, but astoundingly, the prompt does not change!
The prompt always remains to be like this:${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}u@h:w$
This does definitively not stem from 'profile' and I cannot find, where it is defined and how I can override this. If I do it interactively, in a terminal [terminal running in Gnome], it works like expected. In that script, even if I use 'unset PS1',followed by PS1= ... / export PS1, it does not change,Someone with the knowledge and/or a good idea would be great!
I downloaded Ubuntu and was expecting a prompt to re-boot or something to see the change. Nothing happened. I am still in Vista. Where did I go wrong?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI program in C with geany and two terminals open; one to compile and one to test the compiled program. The thing is that it's hard to the eyes to keep track of the messages and such when the terminal prompt is too long:
Code:
manos@manos-desktop:/media/Iomega1TB/Documents/UNI/Datastrukturer och Algoritmer/labbar/lab1$
How can I change that to something minimal? I don't want a permanent solution as all other times I want to be aware of the current path.
